IP Library Granted Patent US 8,660,298
Granted Patent B2
US 8,660,298 · App. 13/494,849 · Granted Feb 25, 2014

Encoding in two chrominance directions

Inventor: Alastair M. Reed (Lake Oswego, OR)
Assignee: Digimarc Corporation
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Patent No.
US 8,660,298
App. No.
13/494,849
Granted
Feb 25, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure relates generally signal processing. One claim recites an apparatus comprising: memory for storing a color video signal comprising first data and second data; and a processor. The processor is programmed for: modifying first color information and second color information of the first data by encoding a signal in the first color information such that the signal includes a first signal polarity, and encoding the signal in the second color information such that signal includes a second signal polarity that is inversely related to the first signal polarity, and modifying first color information and second color information of the second data by encoding the signal in the first color information such that signal includes the second signal polarity, and encoding the signal in the second color information such that the signal includes the first signal polarity. Of course, different combinations and claims are provided too.

Claims (9)

1. An apparatus comprising:

memory for storing a color video signal comprising first data and second data;

a processor programmed for:

modifying first color information and second color information of the first data by encoding a signal in the first color information such that the signal includes a first signal polarity, and encoding the signal in the second color information such that signal includes a second signal polarity that is inversely related to the first signal polarity,

modifying first color information and second color information of the second data by encoding the signal in the first color information such that signal includes the second signal polarity, and encoding the signal in the second color information such that the signal includes the first signal polarity.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 in which encoding the signal utilizes digital watermark embedding.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 in which the signal—once encoded in the first data and in the second data—is imperceptible to a human observer as the video is rendered in real time.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 in which the first data comprises a first frame and the second data comprise a second frame.

5. The apparatus of claim 4 in which the first frame and the second frame are not adjacent frames.

Assignments (3)
ARTICLES OF CONVERSION Recorded Jun 19, 2026
From: DIGIMARC CORPORATION
To: DIGIMARC LLC
Reel/Frame 075863/0211 →
ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT OFTHE ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION OF DIGIMARC LLC Recorded Jun 19, 2026
From: DIGIMARC LLC
To: DMRC LLC
Reel/Frame 075863/0266 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 21, 2012
From: REED, ALASTAIR M.
To: DIGIMARC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 029336/0199 →
Continuity (3)
Continuation 12634505 · Dec 9, 2009
Continuation In Part 12337029 · Dec 17, 2008
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